» Personal Details

Full Name

Keshantaa Pillay

Date of Birth

**/**/****

Nationality

South African

EE/AA

Indian

Phone Number

+27-31-902**** (H)

+27-64-687**** (C)

+27-66-206**** (C)

Email Address

pillaykeshantaa@gmai

l.com

Location

39 Mosque Road Ladysmith,

(KwaZulu Natal) South Africa

Languages

Read, Write, Speak

English - Excellent

Afrikaans – intermediate

» Education

CTA Strategic level in progress

B.Comm (Acc)

Degree at University of Natal in Durban, South Africa (KwaZulu Natal) Completed March 2014

Subjects Passed:

Accounting

Auditing

Taxation

Managerial Accounting

B.Comm Honors (CTA)

Honors Degree at University of Natal in Durban, South Africa (KwaZulu Natal). In progress

Subjects Passed:

Advanced Accounting

Advanced Taxation

Advanced Managerial/Finance Accounting

Grade 12 - Matriculation (National Senior certificate with bachelor’s degree pass) High School/Grade 12 (Matric) at Isipingo Secondary School in Durban, South Africa (Kwa-Zulu Natal).

Subjects

Afrikaans

Mathematics

Accounting

Life science

Physical Science

English

Life orientation

» Achievements

Certificate of Merit for Economics (obtained distinction) University of Kwa Zulu Natal (UDW)

Golden Key Economic Society Member

2011

Special achievement award

Auditor of the year 2016 by KPMG

Excellence Award

Unilever – Retrofit and Business Intelligence Project

» Working Life Employment

Company: KPMG

Position: Financial Accountant

Period: 2 March 2015 – 30 April 2018

Responsibilities:

• Production of monthly management accounts

• Reconciliation of management accounts and analysis of variances

• Reviewing of financial systems and implementation of controls

• Monthly stock counts of various sites on a rotation basis

• Performance of cross regional internal audit and recommendations

• Identifying incidents of risks and non-conformance

• Controlling and granting of credit and recovery of outstanding amounts

• Monitoring and control of stock levels

• Supervision of creditors and debtors functions

• Ensuring buying procedures are applied

• Completion of annual budgeting process within deadlines

• Formulation development plans for staff

• Completion of monthly stock and accrual recons

• Proxy for all regions vehicles including tracking and maintenance Company: Free lance Accountant

Position: Management Reporting Accountant & Information Management Accountant Period: 1 May 2018 – 1 January 2020

Responsibilities:

Management Reporting

• Preparing monthly forecasts to be sent to senior management

• Preparation and submission of 5 year forecast and strategic plan

• Tracking of innovation turnover by brand

• Inputting of price increases (PI) and tracking

• Preparation of board slides

• Tracking of forecast accuracy

• Ad hoc regional requests

• Indirect cost tracking for various functions and sub functions

• Indirect cost regional reporting and submissions

• Business partnering - Human Resources, Marketing, Finance and Legal

• Cost centre controlling ie creation, changing, blocking mapping for entire SA business

• Preparing, collating and uploading of budgets for all cost centres within SA through meetings and discussions.

Information Management

• Information management(IM) – My Business Information rollout (Report Simplification)

• Administrator - Setting up and customising SharePoint for SA and Central Africa

• Coordination of tests and sign offs of reports between the local business and global team

• Planning and coordinating activities throughout the business i.e. Customer Development, Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain.

• Assisting global teams with information management support and setup in South Africa

• Standardisation of reporting with reducing reports within the business (RETROFIT)

• Project Lead on 2 major projects for the Unilever SA business – Report Simplification

• Trained the business and key users on new system and rollout plans. Responsibilities:

• Prepared the following documentation:

- Annual financial statements Unilever SA 2015 (Full IFRS – King 3)

- Corporate Governance Reporting

- monthly & quarterly BCS reporting pack

- quarterly tax pack –Deferred and current tax computations

- monthly income statement, balance sheet & cash flow statement with analysis & ratio calculations

- quarterly CAP commentary

• Quarterly interest rate forecast.

• Ensured compliance with IFRS & UAPM & SCOA

• Completed Stats SA & SA Reserve Bank forms (quarterly & annually)

• Assisted auditors (corporate audit, internal audit, external audit, SOX) with audit requests & provide relevant information (ad hoc)

• Prepared & submitted information as and when requested from minority shareholder, Remgro Holdings

• Annual impairment testing for intangible assets

• Ensuring compliance in terms of the AAC Controls Framework

• Ensuring business compliance in terms of SCOA +

• Upskilling the business by managing, presenting & coordinating training workshops- presented IFRS to graduates within the business

• Aid and advice to the business with respect to accounting transactions

• Monthly Below the line analysis

Tracking of the funding position and debt levels and cash on hand

• Planning and supervising the audits of small, medium and large companies. Scope of the engagement

• Direction and focus of the audit

• Inherent risk on financial statement level

• Fraud considerations

• Internal control assessment

• Assessment of planning materiality

• Assessment of critical cycles and affected assertions

• Preliminary analytical review of financial statements

• Audit of all cycles

• Audit of all balances and transactions

• Audit of internal policies and procedures

• Audit of training information

• Training/mentoring of junior/semi-senior and senior staff

• Audit of performance information

• Concluding and Reporting

• Assessment of final materiality

• Assessment of going concern considerations

• Preparation/analysis of overs/unders schedule (audit differences)

• Final analytical review of financial statements

• Drafting/discussion of internal control findings

• Drafting/discussion of audit report

• Completion of performance appraisals for junior/semi-senior/senior staff

• Control and monitoring of audit budgets and costs

• Reviewing of audit files and ensuring the efficient completion of the audit process

• Assisting clients with account queries

• Processing of management accounts

• Tax computations and tax returns

• Consolidations of large groups

Company: Robertson and Poole Construction

Position: Creditors/Plant/General admin clerk

Period: 13 January 2020 – 5 June 2020

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of management accounts and presentations to Board

• Performing internal audit and establishing controls

• Working with Accpac agents with the integration of Pastel to Accpac and automation

• Information Technology

• Assessing weekly consumption performance and strategy

• Liaising with external auditors

• Reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts

• Maintaining fixed assets register

• Creditors reconciliations

• Payments to creditors

Reason for Leaving:

Retrenchment due to Covid 19 pandemic

» Skills

Expert/Specialist

Accountancy including Consolidations (6 years)

Management accounting (3 years)

Information management (3 years)

Auditing ( 4 years experience)

Cost accounting (4 years experience)

Drawing up and concluding on Financial Statements ( 4 years experience) Taxation (3 years experience)

Accounting and Auditing Computer programs

Extensive Knowledge on:

Business Warehouse (BW) Reporting

Pastel Accounting Partner & Evolution

Microsoft SharePoint -Administrator

Microsoft Office - Advanced Excel, Word, Power Point EIS

(Executive Information System)

Cognos

Caseware (4 years experience)

Draftworx

Prism (Production system)

Great Plans (accounting)

IDU (MIS software) SQL

(Database) Crystal reporting

Pastel Payroll

Designing of spread sheets for management account purposes Knowledge of the following Acts and Standards

Income Tax Act

Value Added Tax Act

King 3 Corporate Governance

Estate Duty Act

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) New International Financial Reporting Standards For SME’s (IFRS for SME’s) International standards on Auditing (ISA’s)

South African Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (SA GAAP) Public Finance Management Act (PFMA)

» Industries work on:

FMCG (Large client turnover > 12-000-***-***)

Financial Reporting Accountant

Manufacturing (Large client turnover > R 500 000 000) Managed the group and 8 staff

Construction (Large client turnover > R 2-000-***-***) Regional Financial Accountant

Hospitals (Netcare - Listed)

Worked with National audit on timely execution of the KZN audit. Steel Group (Argent - Listed)

A high level pivotal role with the AFS and supervision of the branch audits throughout the country.

Clothing Industries (large client turnover > R 250 000 000) High level pivotal roles with the accounting, related controls and supervision of the audits.

Retail (Iliad - Listed)

Worked with National audit on timely execution of the KZN audit. Government South African Police Services (SAPS) and municipalities Regions: Richards Bay, Dundee, Lady Smith, New Castle & Ulundi Property Management

Legal including trust inspections

Shipping agents

Logistics

Asset management and control

I am able to lead staff well and able to manage tasks accordingly. I believe that by keeping my staff motivated, I am able to extract the maximum productivity in the most efficient manner.

» References

Nicolas Biggar CIMA (SA) – Head of Finance at Pulse holdings division of KPMG Kapil Rambali (SAIPA) – Senior Audit Manager at South African Revenue Services Jeanine Barker - Human Resources Manager (Robertson and Poole Construction) Nilesh Maharaj (Hons) - Lecturer at the University of North West (Government) References can be contacted on:

Nicolas Biggar - 031-***-****

Kapil Rambali - 061-***-****

Jeanine Barker - 033-***-****

Nilesh Maharaj - 079-***-****

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